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Nuclear Weapons
This category is for questions about weapons that use nuclear fission or fusion to gain explosive power.
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What is the name of the first American hydrogen bomb?
Ivy Mike.
The previous answer, "Fat boy," is a mash-up of the names of the first two atomic bombs used in warfare. Little Boy, a U-235 fission bomb, was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945; it used a "gun" to bring two chunks of Uranium together to create a critical mass. Three days later, Fat Man, a plutonium fission weapon, was dropped on Nagasaki. The prototype implosion device for this second weapon, called "The Gadget" was tested at Trinity site in New Mexico on July 16, 1945. All three of these employed nuclear fission for their destructive power.
The first nuclear fusion explosion ("hydrogen bomb") was tested at Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands of the Pacific Ocean on November 1, 1952. The project was known as Operation Ivy and the first test, Mike, gives rise to the name "Ivy Mike" which you can find in a simple internet search.
What types of programs were developed to address concerns about nuclear war in the US?
School children in the US conducted "Duck and Cover" drills in the class room. Air Raid Sirens were installed on street corners. Underground anti-aircraft missile batteries were placed around communities thru-out the US. MANY of the missile batteries were discovered in the 1990's after the cold war by construction crews; hardly anyone knew about those. Cold War secrets.
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Why does my Jacuzzi start up by itself?
You must have a time clock on the system. It the Jacuzzi --SPA -- a portable unit? There is a control box under the surround or skirt. There are fasteners or screws at certain points that need to be undone to access the equipment. There will be a clock face - a round looking object with numbers on it and usually from two to four colored "stopper" & 'starter" pegs. The green or sometimes black ones are the "start " pegs. The black ones are the "stop" pegs. You may also need to re-adjust the time -- here there is an arrow indicating the correct time of day. Rotate the face of the clock clockwise - to the right - to indicate the time of day at the arrow - noting the A.M. & P.M. portions on the face.
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Pakistan is not a superpower because it has an economy that doesn't match up the the likes of America or the others. American business basically runs loads of other countries but apart from Afghanistan Pakistan has virtually no influence, nuclear program or not
In Fahrenheit and Celsius How much heat is produced by a 5Mt nuclear bomb?
Fahrenheit and Celsius are not used to describe quantities of heat. They're used
to describe how deep an object is filled with heat.
If the object is one that can't hold much heat ... like a stone or 1/2 ounce of water ...
then even a little bit of heat can fill it deep in Fahrenheit or Celsius.
If it's an object that can hold a lot of heat ... like a swimming pool ... then even if you
pour heat into it for an hour, the heat in it won't get very deep in Fahrenheit or Celsius.
The amount of heat you pour into the object is described in units of energy, like
joules, watt-seconds, or foot-pounds, because, after all, heat is energy.
The amount of energy produced by a 5 Mt nuclear bomb is a big number. So it's
described as "the amount of energy released by exploding 5 million tons of TNT".
That's what "5Mt" means.
Does E equals MC squared deal with the power of nuclear weapons?
After your bomb has gone off, you could hypothetically pick up all the pieces of it. If you add up the weight of all the pieces (including all particles), and compare it to the weight of your original bomb, you will find some mass missing. This mass has been converted into energy and this has created the destruction caused by your bomb. How much energy has been created is given by E=MC^2 where M stands for the missing mass and C for the speed of light.
Why did America use nukes in World War 2?
The US made the decision to use Atomic Weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki based on the thinking (which was correct, based on the intelligence available at the time) that Japan would not surrender unless the US were to physically take control of the country. The invasion required to do that would have cost literally millions of lives on both sides. The use of Atomic Weapons was the most effective way to convince Japan that they could not win and minimize casualties (as strange as it sounds, but no one knew just how powerful the weapons would end up being) .
Yes a Fuel Air Explosive is a bomb, but a very odd one. A Fuel Air Explosive can have the highest possible yield of any deliverable conventional weapon.
The bomb casing is just a large liquid fuel tank with fuse and a fuel atomizer unit (to create a fuel mist). When the fuse determines it should go off it activates the atomizer spraying all the fuel out forming a fuel mist that mixes with air. Then the fuse ignites the fuel, which explodes.
The first Fuel Air Explosive was used in Vietnam, a bomb called the Daisy Cutter, was designed to create instant helicopter landing zones in dense jungle.
What was the maximum range of the soviet nuclear missiles?
About 6,200 miles is a best guess- exact specs are classified.
Did the weapons in World War 1 work?
Oh, my goodness, yes, the weapons of WW1 worked - far too well. A figure of approximately 40,000,000 casualties should give you an idea of just how well. The biggest problem was that, very like the American Civil War, the tactics had not kept pace with the advances in technology, and the commanders were often not flexible enough to recognize this salient fact.
WW1 saw the first use of the airplane as a weapon; the tank was invented in WW1; the machine gun was horribly effective, especially in the early days of the war against massed infantry assaults which now seem almost quaint in their 19th Century simple mindedness. The artillery of WW1 was vastly more deadly than anything that had ever been seen before, and there had been an arms race ever since 1871 that saw all sides developing new and more horrible ways to kill one another at longer and longer ranges. The Germans first used flame throwers at Verdun. Barbed wire may be considered a weapon in that it hung up those massed infantry assaults and allowed the men to be slaughtered by rifles, machine guns, mines, flame throwers and grenades. The Germans also introduced poison gas for the first time in warfare, which was used by both sides and, while not decisively effective, remains one of the most remembered horrors of the First War. The simple bolt-action rifle with bayonet was the least of the soldiers' problems.
Enrichment of uranium faster with higher enrichment?
The higher enrichment needed the more enrichment and stripper stages needed. However the speed of enrichment depends more on how fast you can pump the uranium hexafloride through the individual stages without exceeding their limits. These limits will vary depending on enrichment technology used.
What is the uses and applications of plutonium?
Applications of plutonium:
• explosive in nuclear weapons
• nuclear fuel in nuclear power reactors
• the isotope 238Pu is used as energy source in spacecrafts or other applications (radioisotope thermoelectric generators)
• neutron generator, as Pu-Be source
An A Bomb also known as the Atomic Bomb or Nuclear bomb is a high powered explosive that is created with a nuclear element such as Uranium. Created in 1945 during the Manhattan Project, only used twice during war; both by the USA on Japan
Well the general idea was a thing called "MAD" which was an acronym for mutually assured destruction. The idea, as crazy as it sounds, was that if either country launched an attack both would proceed to completely destroy the other. Sometime in the 1960's the think tanks came up with the idea that they could replace MAD with a program that linked every countries money to everyone else. Thus started the free trade agreements. The idea being that if we were all linked by economics we'd be better neighbors and work things out together. It replaced MAD but many scholars today, especially with the world economy as it is, believe it was naive and hasn't worked.
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How far did sound of the nuclear explosion carry on in Hiroshima?
The bomb itself will travel nowhere when detonated, because it no longer exists.
If you actually meant the range of bomb effects, well that depends on yield and height/depth of burst.
If you actually meant the spread of fallout, well that depends strongly on weather conditions especially wind and precipitation. Fallout plumes thousands of miles long are common, occasionally one will circle the earth several times.
Why uranium is used in ammunition?
Note, uranium armor piercing bullets are not nuclear weapons in any way.
Depleted uranium is used in armor penetrating ammunition because it has the following properties:
- cheap
- plentiful
- high density
- extreme hardness
- pyrophoric - small fragments self ignite in air
One good hit with a depleted uranium round on a tank turret cuts through the armor like butter, then fills the turret with flaming uranium chunks, killing the entire crew instantly. No explosive or incendiary rounds needed on the antiarmor weapon. Uranium does it all.
What is the atomic bomb and how do you make it less powerful?
An atomic bomb is any bomb that derives its energy from the atomic nucleus, it may do this by either the process of fission of heavy nuclei or the process of fusion of light nuclei. Atomic bombs can also be called nuclear bombs.
I don't really understand what you mean by "make it less powerful". The US has made tactical atomic weapons with yields as low as 0.1KTon (100 tons TNT equivalent), however I don't know if they are still stockpiled (they are very inefficient and wasteful in their use of plutonium). For optimal efficiency in use of uranium or plutonium in pure fission atomic bombs, a yield of 200KTons to 400KTon is preferred, however I know no such bombs are still stockpiled as compact fusion bombs in this yield range and higher are both more efficient and much cheaper to build.
What causes a 2003 pt cruiser stereo to go off and on?
Because it's stock. (It's crap!) replace it with a good one.
Was the dropping of a nuclear bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki a war crime?
The wholesale slaughter of human beings is a war crime .
